Art as
Experience (1934) is John Dewey's major writing on aesthetics, originally
delivered as the first William James Lecture at Harvard (1932). Dewey's
aesthetics have been found useful in a number of disciplines, including the new
media.

Dewey had
previously written articles on aesthetics in the 1880s and had further
addressed the matter in Democracy and Education (1915). In his major work,
Experience and Nature (1925), he laid out the beginnings of a theory of
aesthetic experience, and wrote two important essays for Philosophy and Civilization
(1931).